Thanks for the move, Julie.
Thanks for the poem, James. I like it a lot, and I may very well include it. It's not at all like my own stuff, which is a very good thing.
Thanks for the question, Roger. I suppose I mostly mean "poems about foolishness," either about the concept or (more common, I imagine) about specific instances. I left it vague because I'm open to other interpretations, anything that might be appropriate for an evening celebrating foolishness. Since most of my own poems (the ones an audience is likely to enjoy) try to be funny, I'm particularly interested in poems that aren't funny, or--like the one James suggests--aren't exclusively funny. You're right that most nonsense verse wouldn't be much help. And poems the poet was foolish to write (or publish) I can supply from my own stuff.
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